{"id":53439,"date":"2024-04-18T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53439"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:52:52","slug":"in-pictures-buffers-go-in-at-north-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53439","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Buffers go in at North Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little by little progress is being made around the North Station terminus of the Blackpool Tramway extension \u2013 its not enough to say wow its nearly ready but as a certain supermarket says \u201cevery little helps\u201d!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The latest progress to report is the installation of buffers at the end of the line. With the current tramway basically being on a loop (including the line at Fleetwood as well as the access to Starr Gate Depot), buffers are not exactly something many have seen but as the line to North Station is just a branch which comes to an end they are necessary. If nothing else it means that trams won\u2019t be delivering people straight to the reception desk at the hotel without having to get off the tram!<\/p>\n<p>In other news and the bollards which we saw earlier this month ready for installation have now been put in place. But they have gone opposite Sainsbury\u2019s so are not connected to the tramway extension.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53440\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53440\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53440\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53440\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/buffers-pd-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/buffers-pd-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/buffers-pd-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/buffers-pd-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/buffers-pd.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffers in place on both tracks as seen here with the island platform visible. (Photograph by Peter Dockerty, 17th April 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little by little progress is being made around the North Station terminus of the Blackpool Tramway extension \u2013 its not enough to say wow its nearly ready but as a certain supermarket says \u201cevery little helps\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53441,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53439\/revisions\/53441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}